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Activists sue to cut admissions to kids of alumni at top unis after Supreme Court ruling

Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the suit Monday on behalf of Black and Latino community groups in New England, alleging that Harvard’s admissions system violates the Civil Rights Act

Daily Mirror

Harvard legacy admissions targeted in minority groups’ complaint

Harvard University was accused by minority groups of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to children of alumni and wealthy donors, days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race-based affirmative action policies.

Tribune News Service

Harvard sued over ‘legacy admissions’ after Supreme Court targets affirmative action

70 per cent of the college’s donor-related and legacy applicants are white, reporting finds

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Lawsuit challenges legacy admissions at Harvard, alleging racial discrimination

A civil rights legal group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni

The Independent UK

As race-neutral college admissions begin, Texas counselors work to convince students of color they still belong

Black and Latino students make up about two-thirds of Texas’ public schools. But they are vastly underrepresented at its top universities, and Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling will shake up an already complicated application process.

The Texas Tribune

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth

The Independent UK

Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other people of color. Here's how

Myths about affirmative action being discriminatory against Asian Americans helped spread a narrative that college admissions meant to increase diversity were actually racist.

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

The Independent UK

Is 'No Hard Feelings' streaming? Where to watch the new J.Law comedy

Jennifer Lawrence is back onscreen but is 'No Hard Feelings' streaming yet? Here's everything you need to know

My Imperfect Life

A question for Asian Americans celebrating affirmative action's end: What have we won?

A few minutes after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, an email from the 80-20 Initiative, a Chinese political action group, landed in my inbox with the subject head "VICTORY."

Los Angeles Times

For most Asian Americans, diversity is a core value – even if a loud minority contests it

Edward Blum’s group used Asian Americans for display to serve a longstanding anti-affirmative action agenda

The Guardian - US

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

The Independent UK

Editorial: After the Supreme Court decision, schools still have tools to build a diverse class

The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions decisions violates the 14th Amendment came as no surprise. Not to us, and not to most anyone who works in or around colleges and universities, which long have known…

Chicago Tribune

Affirmative action for white people? Legacy college admissions come under renewed scrutiny

In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni

The Independent UK

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Salon

Military schools exempt in SCOTUS ruling

"It seems that the court is willing to uphold use of race when government power is at stake," expert says

Zenger

Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Sparks Debate On Racial Inequality

Left-wing organizations and Democrats clash with court's ruling, highlighting ongoing racial divide in America

WEKU

Kentucky Native and Supreme Court Testifier Has Concerns Over Affirmative Action Ruling

A Kentucky man who testified in front of the nation’s high court on Affirmative Action is concerned about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that struck down programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard.

Reason

Supreme Court Clarifies 'Undue Hardship' Standard for Religious Accommodations in the Workplace

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The Guardian - US

Affirmative action is over in the United States, but only for Black people

Don’t worry, privileged white students can still rely on their parents’ money and connections to get into Harvard. Yay!

The Conversation

Military academies can still consider race in admissions, but the rest of the nation's colleges and universities cannot, court rules

In a 6-3 ruling on Thursday, June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race in college admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, outlawing the use of race in college admissions in general. The Conversation reached out to three legal scholars to explain…

The Conversation

Is it legal to sell human remains?

Four individuals were charged with federal crimes in June 2023 related to the “unlawful transport” across state lines of human remains taken from the Harvard Medical School morgue. This indictment was part of a larger effort by the Department of Justice to shut down a national network of people trafficking…

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Follows Half-Baked Logic

So it’s over. Seriously. It’s hard to find a simple workaround to rescue affirmative action in college admission after today’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that the programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violate the 14th Amendment. Oh, given time, we’ll come up with something. But Chief Justice…

Reason

Download Edited Version Of SFFA v. Harvard From Barnett/Blackman Supplement

I finished editing the entirety of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. You can download it here: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Students-for-Fair-Admission.pdf. It took me about ten hours to edit the entire 237-page decision. (I would have finished sooner, but I was stuck in United Airlines purgatory for much of the day.) The edited…

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court’s Black justices spar over affirmative action

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s two Black justices sparred over the meaning and impact of race in dueling opinions on the majority’s decision to curtail affirmative action programs at universities.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action will cause more harm than good

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disappoints —again.

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